Unearthly Stranger Page #6

able to reduce their power of concentration?

I don't follow you.

What makes you and I lose our grip on things?

What makes a human being lose consciousness...?

There are all sorts of things. Loss

of blood to the brain, a blow, shock...

And anesthetics.

Yes.

Suppose we came across one of these...

creatures, whatever you want to call them.

Suppose we were - by using an anesthetic like ether, say

- able to make them lose their power of concentration.

Would they, in fact, cease to

exist once that had happened?

Would they lose their human form, and

if they did, what would they turn into?

Are you prepared to find out?

Would you allow me to come to your home,

and in your presence anesthetize your wife...

so that we could see, once and for all,

whether she is a real human being...

or an illusion?

You get whatever anesthetic you like -

as strong as you like -

and get over to our house

as quick as you like.

I'll be there first, to tell

her you're coming and why.

And when you walk out of our front door, having

seen how devastatingly wrong your thinking has been,

I want you to know here and now that from that

moment you and I will never see each other again.

Why are you up? What's wrong?

I was just thinking

about how we first met...

That's a fine thing

to get depressed about.

...and how to tell you

that I have to go away.

What are you talking about? Go where?

When I sat beside you in your car that first

night, I didn't think about you very much -

I was more concerned

with what I had to do.

You mean, get back to the hotel

before they locked up for the night?

Why do you think we met?

Why do any two people

meet and fall in love?

I waited in the night

for your car to come.

Did You?

I waited. I was sent to search you out

because of your work... to kill you.

From behind the Iron Curtain?

Because I have failed, my

life here must come to an end.

But this is nonsense!

You don't have to go.

No one can force you

to leave the country.

We have each other

- no one can harm us.

There've been lots of cases where British

subjects have married women from Russia.

We just have to ask

for political asylum.

What do you mean, Russia?

I'm not from Russia.

Then... where?

Don't you know'? Don't you really know?

And isn't John coming

here to prove it to you?

I don't care where you've come from.

You are what I love! I've only seen

you as a woman, not as anything else!

But I am something else.

And now I'm involved with human

emotions; involved with loving you...

with wanting children.

But if you love me - if you're

happy - why do you have to run?

Because I know we can't ever be

together the way we want to be.

Wherever we went they

would search us out.

Look... you came hereto

kill me because of my work.

I can give it up. I don't care

about the project. I care about you.

It isn't enough.

I can't bear to see

you come to any harm.

But they won't harm me if I

give up working on the project.

We'll be safe, won't we? I'm telling you,

We'll be safe! They'll leave us alone!

- What is it?

- Don't you hear it?

Hear what?

You must get away from me... from this house.

I don't want you to see me die.

But you're not going to die.

Mark, I beg you. If you

love me, get away from here.

Otherwise you will be killed,

too, like Munroe and the Major.

How do you know they were killed?

But anyway, you couldn't have killed them because you

were with me in Switzerland, and here at home tonight.

No, I didn't kill them.

You mean... there are others?

Julie...!

Julie!

Come back.

If we're together they can't touch us.

Don't move!

Julie! Julie!

Get away from me!

I don't want you near me.

Please. Please...

I told you they couldn't harm us.

I told you if we'd love each

other they would leave us alone.

It's all right, my

darling. it's all right...

Julie!!

That I saw this beautiful

creature become...

nothing.

And whatever destroyed her

is coming here to kill me...

Dr Davidson, can I help?

You don't know what a relief

it is to see you walk through that door.

I'm glad, because I really

am very sorry about Julie.

Yes, we've been here for twenty years.

And so far we have stopped

you moving into outer space,

and we will continue to

stop you with every means.

Including killing men like

Munroe and Major Clarke?

Unfortunately, yes. And now you.

You can't go on killing.

We found this was the way

back, not the way forward.

But if you threaten us, we

in turn will have to destroy.

And we will win, because you are weak.

You will always reveal yourselves.

There are too many of us,

and few as weak as Julie was.

You call it "weak" to love'?

You call it strong to give yourself to

someone else for this so-called "love"?

You talk a lot about

love; love of freedom, for example.

But do you have it?

Do you really have it'?

It's an illusion, and we have

learned to live without illusions.

You saw what happened.

We have no time for mistakes to be made.

You progress fast.

The dangers of your reaching us make it

imperative that our powers are never diminished...

not for one moment of any day.

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